Joe Wegner
Senior Manager Of Software Engineering at Heroku
Downers Grove, Illinois, United States
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SeniorJoe Wegner is a Senior Manager of Software Engineering with 11 years of experience building and leading teams in SaaS and startup environments, currently driving engineering at Heroku from Downers Grove, Illinois. He blends hands-on engineering roots—spanning frontend, backend, and platform support—with a strong customer-first mindset developed across technical support and developer-facing roles. Joe has progressed internally at Heroku from platform support to senior engineering leadership, demonstrating an ability to translate customer needs into scalable platform improvements. Comfortable in fast-moving startups as well as mature cloud platforms, he combines operational discipline (managing mixed Linux/Windows server fleets early in his career) with product-focused delivery. Colleagues value him for mentoring engineers and for turning complex technical support insights into impactful engineering roadmaps.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (132)
cms10
web-application10
analytics-api10
ember10
ruby-client10
javascript10
tracking-pixels10
event-data10
keen-io10
ghost10
jamstack10
nodejs10
audience10
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headless-cms10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
josephwegner/makehex
Sep 2018 - Jun 2019
Contributions:1 release, 16 commits, 30 PRs in 8 months
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